This piece is an examination of artistic intention and whether it can be taken out of work. I am very interested in the idea that a viewer / listener etc. can only truly receive a piece of work if there is no push from the artist to the viewer. The push is created by certain uses of artistic language, for example, slow motion in video or key changes in music which lead the viewer to receive in a certain way because of pre-conceived attitudes to these elements.

In making this piece I left the camera on auto focus, as in C1, so that it reacted randomly to the movement of the trees as it struggled to focus on them. The trees were placed in the corners of the screen so that there is no centre, or point of focus to the piece. I also allow technical errors to remain in the work, in this instance the images slip while the soundtrack remains consistent, so the viewer ends up in a situation of dissonance whereby sounds occur behind the image and the disparity grows over the duration of the film.                                                    

Video - duration 1 hour (excerpt)